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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congratulations, OP! I know you want it to be faster. But that is still 25 pounds gone. You didn’t say how you were eating. My weight loss doctor (also a gyn so sees mostly women) basically said if I want to lose weight and even just not gain weight, I basically have to eat low carb for the rest of my life. Not no carb. But low carb. I admit it’s hard….mostly because I just get so bored with eating. But I’ve done low carb 3 times, and I recognize now that my body feels so much better without eating all the processed foods. Bread. Pasta. Rice. Even when I did WW, I would mostly eat carbs, and it was harder to lose, and I had more cravings. This has been kind of a revelation to me that I hope will help me to continue this way of eating. I still do eat some carbs. For example, I love frozen grapes. And they are so sweet now that I’ve cut out candy, cookies, cake… I think the other thing I’ve realized is that I need to weigh myself every day. What tends to happen is that I “cheat” and dont want to see and promise I’ll check the next day…and that spirals and then it’s 6 months later and I let everything go. If I get on the scale every day and recognize there will always be some natural variation of a few pounds, I can nip the gain in the bud before it gets out of control.

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I agree that a low carb diet is the best bet. I think the tricky thing is to find a low level that you can live on consistently but still lose weight. I have young kids who eat a million carbs (as they should) and if I go to low I lose my self control and eat their granola bars etc. I think I need at least some carbs at every meal, but ideally whole ones like sweet potatoes etc. I’m going to try harder to keep the carbs low until Christmas as a goal…[/quote]

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